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“The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.”

Source: My Disillusionment in Russia

“To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.”

Mean Ends Government Social Goal Justice Technology Democracy Achieve Stronger Aim Social Justice Means To An End

Author:Beth Simone Noveck

“Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.”

Ifs Way Ends States Reason Nations Social Justice Love Is Violence Pure Social Justice Blind Instance Communism Reasonable Bad Things Fascism Schemes Atheistic Pure Love Blind Love

Author:Francis George

“I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.”

World Ends Running Order Social President Challenges Justice Needed Office Social Justice Conclusion Barriers Agendas Orthodoxy

Author:Jesse Jackson

“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”

Ifs Ends Peace Diversity Social Justice Oppression Chains Ties Confined Repression Peace And Justice

Author:Toni Morrison

“In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.”

Ends Form Black Female Social Justice Humanism Discrimination

Book:Unbought and Unbossed

Source: Unbought and Unbossed

“Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.”

“Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.”

Art Ends Culture Work Expression Social Justice Individuality New Beginnings Beginnings And Ends

Book:Gleams From..: Being Passages Selected and Translated from the Prose Writings of Goethe and from His Converstaions with Eckermann

Source: Gleams From..: Being Passages Selected and Translated from the Prose Writings of Goethe and from His Converstaions with Eckermann

“Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.”

“I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done!”

“In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.”

Ifs Ends Justice Teach Practice Successful Teacher Diversity Racism Social Justice

Author:Max Lerner

“We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.”

Ends Justice Steps Doors Diversity Social Justice Wide Translate Contradictory Every Step Towards Success

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.”

Ends Justice Answers Silence Diversity Social Justice Critics Injustice

Author:Paul Robeson

“We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.”

Knows Children Ends Justice Diversity Racism Abuse Social Justice Bigotry Sexism Denied Child Abuse Homophobia

Author:Urvashi Vaid

“Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care of your fellow citizens when they're down on their luck, you end up killing economic progress. But what European experience actually demonstrates is the opposite: social justice and progress can go hand in hand.”

“In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.”

Mean Long Ends Running Justice Social Justice Worthy Accomplish Long Runs Unworthy

Author:Stephen Covey

“As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.”

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”